The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-11

The Crescent City Town Marshal had a
| lively time on recent trip to Seville. de
went to arrest negro, and the negro got
away from him, whereupon he imbibed TO
drown his sorrow, and wound up by con-
tributing So 60 in fines and costs to the city
treasury.
A well known New York commission
house wants Lawtey to plant 200 acres of
Strawberries for the next season. Straw
! berry shipments for two months, sup
pemented with strawberry wine making
for five or six weeks longer, seem to promise
! well as permanent business.
On July % the City of San Antonio, Of
the Mallory line, win be withdrawn from
the Florida trade, and her place filled by
the 2 900 ton steamship Rio Grande This
| will give shippers and passengers an oppOr-
| tunity to ship largely and make fast time
| The Rio Grande will be the fieetest ship run
ming to Florida Capt. Lewis will be in
| command.
| There is a rumor at Branford that the
| Suwannee River Messenger, at present
| owned by II. Simpson, will change hands
and become the property of a stock COM
pany composed of leading citizens of the
| place, who will continue the publication of
| the paper. Branford is one of the recently
created money order offices, and in this con
nection the post office will soon be fitted up
with a new outfit of boxes, etc.
While Will Hawkins, of Orange City, was
entering the Kimball House at Atlanta, en-
| route North, two policemen placed their
| heavy hands upon his shoulders and told
him that he was wanted by the Macon au-
| thorities for numbering man. Hawkins
| answered the description precisely of the
| person the police were after. After catch
ing his breath he produced papers to fully
| satisfy the Atlanta authorities that he was
not the man they were after. He was de-
tanned about an hour and a half.
The Orange Belt railroad has now been
| completed to Clermont, making 81 miles in
operation. One hundred miles are under
contract and six contractors with 800 men
are at WORK on The line. When completed
| the road will be 100 miles III length. By
| Jan. | it is hoped TO have $50 miles in opera
| ton. Docks and warehouses are now being
constructed at Point Pinelas. The name Of
| the terminus has been changed from Point
| Pinelas to st. Petersburg in honor of P A.
| Demens who is native of st. Petersburg,
| Russia.
Robert Robertson, of Blackwater, County
| Treasurer, died July 2 and was buried by
the Masonic order on July 3. Mr.. Robert
son had been sick for some time and became
| very respondent from the loss of his wife
about two months ago, she having been
| burned to death, and said that he did not
| care to get well, and wished that he had
| burned up with his wife when he tried to
| extinguish the flames Mr. Robertson was
not thought to be very dangerously i'll by
his family, although he was badly burned
mt the time. His injuries healed rapidly
| though he gradually sunk and became more
| Respondent until he died.
! D. Morrison, of Barberville, was a visitor
| to Orange City Wednesday. He reports
| Barberville and its section as growing and
prosperous and its people happy, except a
| Mr.. Odum, the junior member of the firm of
! Brown ~ Odum, merchants of that place
| 1t appears that this firm became insolvent,
and the Brown end of it skipped to parts I'm
known, leaving his junior partner to fix up
with Jacksonville and Savannah merchants,
and to grieve over misplaced confidence in
human nature The finest improvements
| going on at that place at present is the large
Bryan store building. which, when com
pleted will be an ornament to the place.
| A man named Matteo Park, so weak and
debilitated as to scarcely be able to stand,
was sent to Orlando Wednesday from ks
| simmee. The authorities there gave him q
| ticket and put him on board the train for
| Sanford, but the Sanfordites returned him
He was taken to the old Sentinel building,
| opposite the court house, where he lay on a
| floor all night. Friday morning q room and
| attendant were found for him City Physi-
clan Hicks was called to see him when he
| first reached Orlando, as it had been reported
| that he had yellow fever. Had it not been
| for the kindness of Rev. Father Swenbergh
and Cheap John, the man might have died
during the night following his arrival.
Fernandina Mirror: Messrs. Simmons &,
Dozier have been appointed agents in Fer
nandina for the old and popular steamers of
the Sea Island route-the st. Nicholas and
| David Clark. We learn that both of the
Lotto.
| fitted up in good style The absolute naces-
! sity of keeping up this water line connection
to Savannah is apparent 10 the merchants
and business men along the line of the
| Florida Railway and Navigation Company,
with which it will work in perfect accord.
The long familiarity of the new agents with
the transportation business, coupled with
the renewed energy with which the business
| will in future be conducted, insures for the
Sea Island route good patronage from the
public. The steamers will make two trips
| per week at present, arriving here Wednes-
day and Saturday.
The good people of Jefferson are happy.
The farmers have harvested an abundant
oat crop. The cotton crop was never finer,
and the corn crop, as usual, promises a
plenty of hog and hominy," Vegetable
| growers have made an excellent crop, and
realized exceptionally good prices. w. NJ
| Ctlfarueau mas shipped from SIX acres of to-
matoes over / 200 crates. He has $50 acres
in melons, and will ship seventv-five car
loads and will have $4,000 pounds of seed
for sale. He grows the kolb Gem, Pride
of Georgia, Mammoth lronClad, Thomas.
| Rattlesnake and an excellent variety orig
mated by himself, called the Florida Favor
lite. He has won a reputation as a seed
grower that enables him to sell all seed
that he can spare, and he has among. his
| largest customers such scedsmcn as Robert
Buist, j. NJ. Thorburn Hiram Sibley and
Others of like reputation.
Brooksvlle Nc,cs: Since the rainy season
set in good many orange trees in this
vicinity and on the Pine lands of Sumter
have bloomed out III full The same pheno-
menon has occurred In other sections of the
orange belt, notably at Orlando About
| Bamboo, Wildwood and Oxford, In Sum
| ter, the trees which are in bloom are old
ones which, for some reason, failed to bloom
| in thespring. Representative W. d. Chap
man, of Sumter, whose trees are covered
with blooms, told this scribe that the
| fruit from these blossoms would stand the
| coming winter better than the mature fruit
| and would remain on the trees and ripcn in
| May, thus giving us a summer crop OF
| oranges that would sell at fancy prices Mr.
! Chapman, who has splendid grove at
| Bamboo, says he has had few trees to do
! this way before and that he wishes all of
his trees would do the same thing every
| year, as it would enable him to realize twice